On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:17:32 +0000 (GMT) > From: Joachim Noreiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Gnome usability <[email protected]>, > GNOME Documentation <[email protected]> > Subject: [Usability] What is the name of this menu? > > The menu that looks like > " *foot* Applications Places Desktop" > > has no name. > The applet is called "Menu Bar", which is ambiguous, > and breaks style guide rules to write "menubar" in one > word. > Considering that this is perhaps the user's main point > of access to GNOME, and that it's mentioned very > frequently in docs, I think it needs a name. (There is > also the problem of ambiguity with the Nautilus Places > menu, and the ambiguity of the word Desktop.) > > I've been saying "The top panel menu" which is a bit > wordy.
Sounds about right to me. > I would suggest we strip the old and unused "Main > Menu" of its name, and use it for this: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331459 Some of us don't use the double panel setup, so I'd be reluctant to reuse that bit of terminology just yet. > Any other ideas? -- Alan H. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
